The Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs - Week 141

Here's the standings for Week 141:

1 - Duct Tape Marketing - 132,000 (+1,000)(LW - 1)
2 - Church of the Customer - 121,000 (+1,000)(LW - 2)
3 - CopyBlogger - 58,739 (+2,551)(LW - 3)
4 - Web Strategy by Jeremiah - 23,440 (+2,264)(LW - 5)
5 - Chris Brogan - 23,121 (+715)(LW - 4)
6 - Logic + Emotion - 13,896 (+487)(LW - 6)
7 - Search Engine Guide - 13,592 (+679)(LW - 7)
8 - Daily Fix - 9,882(+424)(LW - 8)
9 - Influential Marketing - 9,470 (+610)(LW - 9)
10 - Drew's Marketing Minute - 6,995 (-238)(LW - 10)
11 - Conversation Agent - 5,098 (+316)(LW - 11)
12 - Jaffe Juice - 4,716 (-53)(LW - 12)
13 - Social Media Explorer - 4,646 (+400)(LW - 14)
14 - The Viral Garden - 4,257 (+183)(LW - 13)
15 - Being Peter Kim - 4,097 (+156)(LW - 16)
16 - What's Next - 4,096 (+89)(LW - 15)
17 - Debbie Weil's Blog - 3,844 (+126)(LW - 17)
18 - Converstations - 3,673 (+207)(LW - 18)
19 - Techipedia - 3,112 (+35)(LW - 19)
20 - Brand and Market - 2,929 (+283)(LW - 20)
21 - The Social Media Marketing Blog - 2,777 (+104)(LW - 21)
22 - Techno Marketer - 2,332 (+62)(LW - 22)
23 - Greg Verdino's Marketing Blog - 2,267 (+36)(LW - 23)
24 - Emergence Marketing - 2,207 (+17)(LW - 24)
25 - The Social Customer Manifesto - 1,913 (+40)(LW - 25)


The Top 25 Marketing & Social Media Blogs are ranked by the number of subscribers, according to FeedBurner. The number you see after the blog name is how many subscribers accessed the blog's feed, according to FeedBurner. FeedBurner (and I had to look it up to make sure) tracks the number of times your blog's feed is accessed, and matches it against the IP address of the computer making the request, to approximate the number of subscribers that access your feed, and report this as the number used in the Top 25. After that number is a positive or negative number, and this represents how many readers the blog gained or lost from last week's Top 25. The final stat tells you what position the blog held in the Top 25 Last Week (LW). If you see this; (LW - UR), it means the blog wasn't ranked last week.

Welcome to this month's edition of the Top 25 Marketing and Social Media blogs. One advantage of doing the list once a month is that we can more easily spot trends. Such as, 23 of the 25 blogs gained subscribers in the last month. This is a good sign that blog readership, at least among the more 'popular' marketing and social media blogs, continues to expand.

As far as moves, Jeremiah leapfrogged back in front of Chris Brogan to reclaim the #4 spot, and I thought that SEG had a big month. Past the Top 10, Conversation Agent and Social Media Explorer continued their hot streaks.

Remember if you want to have your blog be considered for inclusion in the Top 25, make sure you add the Feedburner feed count chicklet to your blog. And if you redesign your blog, make sure to keep the FB chicklet on there, or I can't track you for the Top 25.




Next update is next month.